Digital Services is a TIVIT program that aims to help rapidly launch, maintain and develop new digital services. With $6M total volume for 2012, the program targets four sectors: SMEs, Finance, Education and Wellness.

In this webinar Roope Takala, Focus Area Director, explains the structure and objectives of the Digital Services program. In addition to outlining the program’s worldview, the webinar cites real-life examples of ongoing projects like MIDEaaS, SuoRA and Wellmate.

In the near future the internet and wireless technologies will connect different sources of information such as sensors, mobile phones and cars in an ever tighter manner. This shift is often referred to as the Internet of Things.

To harness the potential of that shift in Finland, big corporations, SMEs and university partners grouped under the TIVIT umbrella for the Internet of Things (IoT) program. The IoT is a four-year program that aims to establish Finnish ICT industry as an internationally recognized leader in the IoT domain. The program is part of TIVIT’s overall goal to position Finland as a gateway between Europe and China in the ICT sector.

In this webinar, Wilhelm Rauss, Focus Area Director at TIVIT, introduces the IoT program with its goals and general plan, timeline, project partners and project achievements so far. The program includes six working packages whose combined goal is to create an open general platform for IoT that would offer horizontal solutions for all major sectors (health, transport, security, energy).

Started in March 2012, the program has already achieved tangible results like 23 published scientific papers, advances in data collection and 3D prototyping as well as closer cooperation ties with the French Cluster and the Chinese partners.

What is a business ecosystem and how do businesses cluster and network within it? What role does collaborative business concept development play in an ecosystem? Do ecosystems develop by themselves or can they be helped to emerge?

This webinar by Jaakko Talvitie, Director of TiViT’s Business Ecosystem Creation program, seeks to answer these questions. On top of defining the concepts and outlining the architecture of an ecosystem, the presentation will explain what TiViT Ecosystem program is and how it can help companies in business ecosystems creation.

TiViT’s Data to Intelligence (D2I) program seeks to find ways to use big data for the benefit of businesses and services. In this webinar Prof. Jukka Heikkilä from Turku School of Economics will discuss the process and findings on business modeling conducted during the D2I program.

The presentation starts off with a general description of what business modeling is and goes on to discuss the different types of business models and business process design (Canvas, BM2EA, STOF). In addition, Professor Heikkilä shares lessons learnt so far from researching business modeling processes for network-based businesses.

Non-Instrusive Applience Load Monitoring (NIALM) is a project under TiViT’s DIEM program that develops a method to detect electrical devices’ usage with only electrical meters. The benefits of the method are easy installation and seamless user experience. NIALM has many applications but in this particular project it is used for remote senior monitoring.

The project’s outcome is eQL Care – an easy to implement system that helps nurses and care-takers monitor senior’s activity levels through their usage of electrical devices. From a business perspective, eQL Care would be brought to market as a service for municipalities, consumers and care-taking business alike. Watch this short webinar to learn more about NIALM and see eQL Care product demonstration.

Digitalization of services has profoundly changed working practices and opened up new opportunities in every industry. However, designing and implementing digital services is challenging since there is no existing set of tools and practices that could help guide the process. TIVIT’s Service Development Laboratory (FORGE) is striving to fill that gap by creating an environment that facilitates digital service creation. In this webinar Jari Juopperi, Director at FORGE, introduces the project’s background story, approach and implementation plan.

F-Secure has been developing cloud-based security software for several years. From protecting devices against malware we are currently expanding to protecting the irreplaceable content for the people. F-Secure Content Anywhere is a simple and secure cloud service that backs up the content from user’s devices and allows the user to access the content from any device, any time. In the course of developing Content Anywhere, we organized a long-term user study with a group of key users, who tested the new cloud service with their devices.

We benchmarked the new service against our earlier Online Backup service to validate the new value proposition, users’ mental model, UX design conventions, and to identify areas for further improvement. The long-term user study was supported by an online focus group setting. This allowed the development team to carry out intimate dialog with the test users, learn from their expectations, gather their feedback, and to probe specific topics that were identified during the research project. In this presentation, we discuss the research method, its applicability to cloud service design and development, and illustrate the Content Anywhere service.

Web-based software and services are available all over the world instantly after they are released online. They can be used and updated without need to install anything, and once in place, they can also be reused in other contexts. As the amount of web services and devices used to consume data has exploded, it is becoming difficult to handle and gain access to the relevant data. Mashups are a new breed of web applications that act as content aggregates that leverage the power of the Web to support instant, worldwide sharing of content. In this paper, we apply mashupping technologies to software development, and introduce the concept of mashware, where components loaded on-demand from different sites form real applications building on the strengths of each individual component. In addition, we discuss our proof-of-concept system, where a mashware prototype has been realized for mobile devices.